CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. Buckskin
CHAPTER II. The Rashness of Shorty
CHAPTER III. The Argument
CHAPTER IV. The Vagrant Sioux
CHAPTER V. The Law of the Range
CHAPTER VI. Trials of the Convalescent
CHAPTER VII. The Open Door
CHAPTER VIII. Hopalong Keeps His Word
CHAPTER IX. The Advent of McAllister
CHAPTER X. Peace Hath its Victories
CHAPTER XI. Holding the Claim
CHAPTER XII. The Hospitality of Travennes
CHAPTER XIII. Travennes' Discomfiture
CHAPTER XIV. The Tale of a Cigarette
CHAPTER XV. The Penalty
CHAPTER XVI. Rustlers on the Range
CHAPTER XVII. Mr. Trendley Assumes Added Importance
CHAPTER XVIII. The Search Begins
CHAPTER XIX. Hopalong's Decision
CHAPTER XX. A Problem Solved
CHAPTER XXI. The Call
CHAPTER XXII. The Showdown
CHAPTER XXIII. Mr. Cassidy Meets a Woman
CHAPTER XXIV. The Strategy of Mr. Peters
CHAPTER XXV. Mr. Ewalt Draws Cards
The town lay sprawled over half a square mile of alkali plain, its main Street depressing in its width, for those who were responsible for its inception had worked with a generosity born of the knowledge that they had at their immediate and unchallenged disposal the broad lands of Texas and New Mexico on which to assemble a grand total of twenty buildings, four of which were of wood. As this material was scarce, and had to be brought from where the waters of the Gulf lapped against the flat coast, the last-mentioned buildings were a matter of local pride, as indicating the progressiveness of their owners.
These creations of hammer and saw were of one story, crude and unpainted; their cheap weather sheathing, warped and shrunken by the pitiless sun, curled back on